The Country Wife (Regents Restoration Drama) - Softcover

Wycherley, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803253710 ISBN 13: 9780803253711

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1965

Synopsis

The resourceful hero of The Country Wife is Horner, the scourge of stupid husbands and the hope of unhappy wives. Through a single simple ruse Horner helps one woman after another settle accounts with a foolish spouse. Margery, the country wife, upsets his plans when she learns the manners of the city and begins to apply them herself.

The Regents Restoration Drama text is based on the first edition of 1675, the last edition to enjoy Wycherley’s attention. By the time the second edition appeared he was in prison for debt, having enjoyed too much of his success at the royal court.

About this title

Book Description:

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times.The Country Wife by William Wycherley is edited by Ken Bush, Denefield School, Reading

About the Author:

William Wycherley (1640 – 1715) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period.

Editor James Ogden was formerly a lecturer in the Department of English in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is also the editor of the New Mermaids edition of She Stoops to Conquer.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0803253710
• ISBN 13: 9780803253711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 153
• Editor: Fujimura Thomas H.